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 PUBLIC LAW 96-122—NOV. 17, 1979 to all participants (including such places as the Council may by regulation prescribe). (3) Within two hundred and ten days after the close of the fiscal year, the Board shall furnish to each participant, and to each beneficiary receiving benefits under the retirement program, a copy of the statements and schedules described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 162(b)(2) for such fiscal year and such other material as is necessary to fairly summarize the latest annual report. (4) The Board shall, upon written request of any participant or beneficiary, furnish a copy of the latest updated summary retirement program description, the latest annual report, and any bargaining agreement, trust agreement, contract, or other instruments under which the retirement program or Fund is operated. The Board may make a reasonable charge to cover the cost of furnishing such copies. The Council may by regulation prescribe the maximum amount that will constitute a reasonable charge under the preceding sentence. (c) The Council may by regulation require that the Board furnish to each participant and to each beneficiary receiving benefits under a retirement program a statement of the rights of participants and beneficiaries under this title.

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REPORTING OF PARTICIPANTS' BENEFIT RIGHTS

SEC. 165. (a) The Board shall furnish to any participant or beneficiary who so requests in writing, a statement indicating, on the basis of the latest available information— (1) the total benefits accrued, and (2) the nonforfeitable retirement benefits, if any, which have accrued, or the earliest date on which benefits will become nonforfeitable. (b) A participant or beneficiary is not entitled to receive more than one report under subsection (a) during any twelve-month period. PUBLIC INFORMATION

SEC. 166. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the contents of the descriptions, annual reports, statements, and other documents filed with the Mayor, the Council, the Speaker, and the President pro tempore pursuant to this part shall be public information, and the Mayor, the Council, the Speaker, and the President pro tempore shall each make such documents available for inspection in an appropriate location. The Mayor, the Council, the Speaker, and the President pro tempore may use the information and data in such documents for statistical and research purposes and may compile and publish such studies, analyses, reports, and surveys based thereon as may be considered appropriate. (b) Information described in section 165(a) with respect to a partici- information pant or beneficiary of a retirement program may be disclosed only to disclosure. the extent that information respecting that participant's or beneficiary's benefits under title II of the Social Security Act may be disclosed 42 USC 401. under such Act. (c) Except to the extent that information which is protected from public disclosure under subsection (b), or which relates to personnel matters the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, is involved, all meetings of the Board shall be open to the public.

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